Light Drops

  • Filipe Carvalho: Rui Pedromit 14
  • Luís Sarmento: Rui Pedromit 50
  • Alexandra Antunes: Ana
  • Amaral Matos: Jacopo
  • Marco D' Almeida Carlos
  • Teresa Madruga: Alice
  • Carla Bolito: Isaura
  • Alberto Magassela: Guinda
  • Vítor Norte: Barroso
  • António Fonseca: César

O Gotejar da Luz (English: The trickle of light) is a Mozambican - Portuguese film director Fernando Vendrell from the Portuguese in 2002.

Action

The now 50 - year-old Portuguese Rui Pedro returns to Mozambique and explores the stages of his childhood. Despite all the changes after many years on doing gradually more and more points of contact, and it returns the memory. Rui Pedro once spent a carefree childhood in the Portuguese colony, as a child of Portuguese farmers in the hinterland Mozambiks. He lived between the European- Portuguese culture and the African- Mozambican. The adjacent, to traversing only a small raft ferry river Pungwe marked for him the limit to the mysterious, both promising as well as threatening outside world, and the school, which was depriving him outside the school holidays, the carefree and equally guarded as varied life. At 14, his perfect world shattered with the onrushing Portuguese Colonial War and the contradictions that were previously united as a matter of course, now broke insurmountable on, and his life changed radically.

Reception

The quiet, thoughtful film is a screen adaptation of the story of the Mozambican author Leite de Vasconcelos. Addressed is the process in atmospheric images, the contrast between the organic nature and the ambitions of the people, the contrast between the human interaction and the exploitation situation between European settlers and African population, the differences between the two cultures that hold unnaturally far apart, and the violence that is the people in the field of tension done by external circumstances and allow them to impose themselves.

The film won a number of awards, including at the Berlinale 2002, and the Portuguese Globo de Ouro for the drama performance by Vítor Norte.

2002 in film Screenplay Teodomiro Leite de Vasconcelos Film score Portugal
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